Denmark turns to the Right again as leader’s gamble pays off

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Denmark’s right-wing Government won a third term in power last night after the Prime Minister’s surprise decision to call a snap general election narrowly paid off.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s coalition won 89 seats, compared with 81 for the left-wing grouping led by Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the daughter-in-law of Lord Kinnock of Bedwellty, the former leader of the Labour Party.

This left Mr Rasmussen, 54, the leader of the Liberal party, one seat short of an absolute majority, but he was expected to clinch it later today thanks to support from one of the two MPs from the Faroe Islands, a Danish